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One for the global warming denier baboons here

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    One for the global warming denier baboons here

    2017-04-04 Miami's Fight Against Rising Seas

    Or is it that Florida is sinking?

    When I called, I’d ask my dad how the building was doing. “The basement flooded again a couple weeks ago,” he’d sometimes say. Or: “It’s getting worse.” It’s not only his building: he’s also driven through a foot of water on a main road a couple of towns over and is used to tiptoeing around pools in the local supermarket’s car park.
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    #2
    Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
    2017-04-04 Miami's Fight Against Rising Seas

    Or is it that Florida is sinking?

    The weight of MF visiting?
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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      #3
      I was not convinced until I saw that article. Now I am convinced.

      I also think that if a woman is not pregnant one day, and pregnant the next day, by week 40 she will give birth to 280 babies.

      And that I have a 10% chance of having my car stolen by a polar bear(10% chance car thief is left handed, all polar bears are left handed).

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        #4
        OK, I'll bite.

        If you build a waterfront paradise on drained/reclaimed land at sea level you must expect flooding, and useless basements.

        In Miami, I believe they've been collecting sea level data since at least 1921, so the upward trend has been known for some time. One might blame short-sighted developers & the lure of making a heap of $$$$, but I do find it difficult to have sympathy with well-minted retirees who knowingly bought property on a swamp.

        My advice to Miami is to embrace the decay and re-brand with gondoliers & gelato.

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          #5
          Flooding occurs when there are huge tides. The tides are driven by the moon.

          One can only conclude that aliens / Russians or Chinese have invaded the moon.

          I for one hope that Trump destroys the moon with nuclear weapons and solves this once and for all.
          First Law of Contracting: Only the strong survive

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            #6
            Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
            One for the global warming denier baboons here
            I thought this thread was about monkeys in tights.
            Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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              #7
              The old man does a 30 denier baboon for a reasonable fee.

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                #8
                Scheveningen is below sea-level; no problem there.

                https://denhaag.com/en/scheveningen
                "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Paddy View Post
                  Scheveningen is below sea-level; no problem there.

                  https://denhaag.com/en/scheveningen
                  Maybe Trump needs to build a wall around Florida instead of Mexico. There's an idea.
                  First Law of Contracting: Only the strong survive

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by glebe digital View Post
                    OK, I'll bite.

                    If you build a waterfront paradise on drained/reclaimed land at sea level you must expect flooding, and useless basements.

                    In Miami, I believe they've been collecting sea level data since at least 1921, so the upward trend has been known for some time. One might blame short-sighted developers & the lure of making a heap of $$$$, but I do find it difficult to have sympathy with well-minted retirees who knowingly bought property on a swamp.

                    My advice to Miami is to embrace the decay and re-brand with gondoliers & gelato.
                    Well said. Most of southern Florida is swampland, the rest is reclaimed swampland which has been built on. Where it has been densely built on (e.g. Miami) the water which has been in the ground for x thousand years has got to go somewhere.
                    They clearly don't have much in the way of building regs if they let people build basements there - that takes a level of stupidity hitherto unknown outside some states in the US.
                    His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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